Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 6, Issue 8, Pages 6812-6820Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn301557u
Keywords
gold catalysts; STEM; nanointerfaces; ceria; electronic metal-support interaction effects
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- Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain/FEDER Program of the EU [MAT2008-00889-NAN, CSD2009-00013]
- Junta de Andalucia [FQM-110, FQM-334]
- MECD Spanish Ministry [EX2010-1135]
- University of Cadiz
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A variety of advanced (scanning) transmission electron microscopy experiments, carried out in aberration-corrected equipment, provide direct evidence about subtle structural changes taking place at nanometer-sized Aullceria oxide interfaces, which agrees with the occurrence of charge transfer effects between the reduced support and supported gold nanoparticles suggested by macroscopic techniques. Tighter binding of the gold nanoparticles onto the ceria oxide support when this is reduced is revealed by the structural analysis. This structural modification is accompanied by parallel deactivation of the CO chemisorption capacity of the gold nanoparticles, which is interpreted in exact quantitative terms as due to deactivation of the gold atoms at the perimeter of the Aullcerium oxide interface.
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